Felix wanted to make his birthday cake this year, a chocolate cheesecake with chocolate icing.
I used this recipe for the chocolate wafer cookies for the crust. Tweaks were:
– halved both sugars
– increased butter from 113 g to 120 g ish
We used this recipe for the cheesecake. Tweaks included:
– removed all the sugar in the crust and the filling (Felix decided between the chocolate chips and chocolate icing, if we added the sugar called for in the recipe it would be way too sweet)
– added the espresso powder (you can’t tell that it’s there)
We used the ganache recipe from this recipe for the icing. The change was to pour the still liquid icing over the cooled cake rather than cooling it till it hardened and then spreading it.
Yum Yum Yum!